Frying pan? Fire? Be careful what you ask for?
It has been literally decades since Chicago has had a choice OTHER than “frying pan” or “fire”.
Not that the Machine would ever allow other than those two alternatives.
Even within the most liberal of venues, there is a sort of “politics”, in which the more radical is set against the old radical, and there is a stalemate, a sort of gridlock that sets in, and no improvement is ever forthcoming.